Aquaculture News

Unfortunately, because of the Norwegian-led fish-farming industry and modern pollution, its no longer safe to assume you're eating a nutritious, disease and poison-free fisha unless you know exactly where it came from.

The fish oil market includes fish oil obtained from fishing as well as aquaculture.

Breeding them may be a bit easier now that UPM researchers have found the best feed combination.

By Scott Stanfield - Comox Valley Record Published: May 22, 2013 11:00 AM Updated: May 22, 2013 11:49 AM In an initial screening, the provincial Environmental Assessment Office has rejected the application from the proponents of the Raven underground coal mine proposal near Baynes Sound.

Federal officials are proposing scaled-down regulations to close a loophole they say is threatening more than 300 square miles of federally protected coastal waters in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary with the introduction of non-native and genetically modified species.

A public-private partnership to restore aquatic habitat and increase the number of oyster farming operations in Tomales Bay and statewide will be proposed for the first time next month, backers of the so-called California Shellfish Initiative said Sunday.

The Indian Government has taken serious measures to promote the aquaculture industry.

Shetland has enjoyed "robust" economic growth of 27 per cent in the last decade, and its billion-pound economy makes a positive contribution of A 82 million a year to the UK state.

Shellfishermen expressed frustration with state regulators and those who protect marine animals at a workshop Wednesday on a new aquaculture venture in Cape Cod Bay.

There are stealth bombers cruising through the huge swimming pool, flat- fish the size of doors, changing colour as you watch, from matt black to pebble-and-sand. Fish farmer Bob Wilkieson pulls one up in a net.

Walker's office said the initiative, developed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, will dramatically increase the number of walleyes in the state by expanding production at state, private, and tribal fish hatcheries.

Shawn Bishop is following in some big footsteps. He is a direct descendant of frontier Texas naturalist Gideon Lincecum, who first observed and wrote about Texas flora and fauna in the early 1800s.

The Ontario Medical Association has proposed an outright ban on the inclusion of antibiotics in animal feed by producers, but the Ontario Veterinary Medicine Association and the rural division of the OMA are working together to find a more equitable middle ground on the issue.

Not far north of Nha Trang , a landscape of rice fields gives way to salt-fields and aquaculture ponds.

A new study published in PNAS argues that for fisheries policies to be effective they must take in to account not just fish stock conservation and environmental issues, but also research data on the patterns and dynamics of fish trade, markets and user consumption.

Scotland's biggest producer of farmed salmon is facing renewed calls to move its farms away from wild salmon rivers to prevent parasite transmission.

Research is paving the way for more profitable and environmentally friendly black pearl farming on the atolls of the South Pacific islands where production has taken a dive.

After more than a year of discussions, the city has published a draft document outlining new rules for urban agriculture in Boston.

I TURNED up at the BBC Scotland HQ in Glasgow for a stint as the "presenter's friend" on Holyrood Live last week and I have to admit I was more nervous than usual at the prospect of doing an hour of live telly.

When most of us go down to the coast, whether to walk or swim or fish or sail, we take for granted what we see before us.